After 46 years of “thumbs-up” or “-down” to every crumb, slab or sliver of cinematic art, it seems only fitting that late Chicago film critic Roger Ebert is the subject of a feature-length documentary ...

Like the best movies to which Roger Ebert would give his iconic “thumbs up”, Life Itself — a moving tribute to the film critic’s life and work — touches the soul with its willingness to candidly ...

The film tells the life story of renowned film fritic Roger Ebert and is directed by Steven James, who also directed the acclaimed 1994 Chicago film ''Hoop Dreams,'' a flim Ebert championed. Oscar ...

If you’ve seen a movie in the last 30 years, chances are you’ve seen Roger Ebert’s name — not on the credits onscreen, but on the posters and ads. With rival-cum-partner Gene Siskel, Ebert patented ...

It was the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius who wittily offered what once flourished as a cultural law: No one ever erected a statue to a critic. No more. The late Roger Ebert has forever erased ...

Filmmaker Steve James and Chaz Ebert tell Kim Masters about the journey of adapting Roger Ebert’s memoir, ‘Life Itself’ to a documentary. James figured finding funding for such a film would be no ...